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Machine Guns

Machine Guns. Machine guns 600 shots per minute cooled by a water chamber. Artillery and communication. Light artillery could fire 15 to 20 rounds every minute Six of every ten casualties were caused by artillery. “ Big Bertha ”= range of 15 Kilometers. Communications

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Machine Guns

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  1. Machine Guns Machine guns 600shotsperminute cooled by a water chamber

  2. Artillery and communication Light artillery could fire 15 to 20 rounds every minute Six of every ten casualties were caused by artillery. “Big Bertha”=range of 15 Kilometers. Communications send messages via a phone line Sometimes messenger pigeons and runners

  3. Poison Gas This weapon moved through the air and if the wind changed direction so did the gas. But most gasses were heavier than air and would naturally sink into trenches. Gas attacks claimed the lives of over 1 million soldiers. STOP and read the “Poison Gas’ Reading

  4. Tanks To fool the enemy from learning about this new weapon these land-ships were called “water tanks.” Eight men converted tractors with guns 4 MPH weighed 28 tons extremely unreliable

  5. Air Warfare Planes Used for reconnaissance (scouting) 50 mph originally had no weapons. Eventually these planes are mounted with machine guns and have an increased speed. Zeppelins early aircraft used to attack large hydrogen balloons carried 1 ton of bombs.

  6. Land warfare wasn’t the only type of fighting…Naval Warfare Dreadnoughts huge powerful steel battleships ran on oil very expensive!

  7. Submarines (U-Boats) Submarines were underwater boats that were extremely useful at sinking enemy supply ships. Because they were technically ships they had to obey the Law of the Sea If you attack a civilian vessel you must give warning Give time for the crew to get into life vessels Call in the position so that the crew can be rescued

  8. Atlantic Ocean Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (1915-1917) Did not follow rules Germans used U-Boats (subs) to starve out the British. Sunk neutral ships as well and angered the US. U-Boat sunk 3,000 ships in 1917 alone.

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